CDT Project Release Notes

Release 2.0.0
Last revised July 15, 2004

This software is OSI Certified Open Source Software.
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1. Target Operating Environments
2. Features Added
3. Known Issues
4. Defects Fixed

1. Target Operating Environments

The CDT Framework is platform independent. It will run where Eclipse will run. However, the default implementations may depend on external applications. To follow in the Eclipse spirit of open source, the default implementations rely upon freely available open source tools, such as the GNU Tools: GDB and Make. Therefore, the dependencies on GDB for debugging, or Make for building, will require that these applications are available for the platform that the user wishes to use. References to some of the known implementations for each platform will be indicated in the sections of this FAQ that include instructions for installation, project creation and building the CDT on the various platforms.

Which platforms are fully supported will ultimately depend on the needs of the community, as expressed by the participation in developing, and testing for each platform.

The core plug-ins are written in Java with a small amount of native code and thus may be ported to any platform supported by Eclipse. However, some default implementations may require that other software or tools, licensed under GNU, may be required.

In general there is some version of Linux and some version of windows used by the developers on the CDT.  For an exact list of supported platforms see the Downloads page

NOTE:  The CDT does NOT run on Windows 98 and Windows ME.

The objective is to support the CDT on all target operating environments listed in the Eclipse 3.0 Project Plan.

Eclipse SDK 3.0 is tested and validated on the following reference platforms (this list is updated over the course of the release cycle):

* Although untested, Eclipse should work fine on other OSes that support the same window system. For Win32: NT, 2000, and Server 2003; SWT HTML viewer requires Internet Explorer 5 (or higher). For GTK on other Linux systems: version 2.2.1 of the GTK+ widget toolkit and associated libraries (GLib, Pango); SWT HTML viewer requires Mozilla 1.4GTK2. For Motif on other Linux systems: Open Motif 2.1 (included); SWT HTML viewer requires Mozilla 1.4GTK2.

What tools do I need to run CDT?

There are several tools that can help you run GNU Tools on Windows.

• Cygwin
• MinGW.
  Note: MinGW also works on top of a CygWin installation.

2. Features Added

CDT components have been improved to provide better support to users with impared vision and motor control.

Watch for language packs supporting CDT in Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.

Builds can now be performed in the background.

Searches can now be performed in the background.

Automatically generate project defines and include paths settings from the C/C++ > New Make Projects > Discovery Options project settings. C/C++ File Types

Define specific files, especially C++ headers without extensions, using the C/C++ File Types global preferences or project property.

Building from multiple binary formats? Choose the appropriate formats using the Binary Parser project option.

Enable the editor hyperlink navigation and then you can use Ctrl+click to jump to the declaration of an item on the C/C++ editor.

Enable C/C++ indexing and indexer error reporting in the C/C++ Indexer properties. This helps identify projects missing path configuration information.

Use the Outline or the C/C++ Editor Refactor > Rename context menu to refactor class & type names, methods, function & member names.

Use Open Type to open up the declaration of C/C++ classes, structures, unions, typedefs, enumerations and namespaces.

Configure the default behavior of the automatic retrieval of shared library and register information in the C/C++ debugger.

You can now set the compiler command for managed projects.

Standard Make now parses response from Make command to populate paths and symbols.

Now supports some of the GNU extensions to the ANSI specification.

You can now open Include files from the Outline View.

You can now perform selection searches from the C/C++ Editor

Search now supports external files referenced using #include.

You can now browse the structure of your Makefile in Outline View.

Content Assist now produces proposals from classes and structure members, local & global variables, pre-processor defines, pre-processor commands.

Content Assist now supports C++.

For more information see the CDT 2.0 New & Noteworthy section of the CDT Webpage.

3. Known Issues

3.1 Platform

Intermittent thread error during search (AIX only)

HP-UX Binary Parsers not supported (HP-UX only)

Missing '\' in support variables (Windows only)

3.2 Java Runtime Environment (JRE)

Content Assist / Search fails when iostream is included (IBM JRE Classic only)

3.2 C/C++ Development Tools (CDT)

Custom Build Targets from CDT 1.2 must be upgraded

Generated Files and Folders may be added to CM System after Import

Unable to find the schema for the Managed Build System

1. Click Help > Software Updates > Find and Install...
2. Select Search for new features to install.
3. Follow the wizard selecting the SDK Tooling feature, accepting the installation and then restart Eclipse.

1. Switch to the Plug-in Development perspective and click File > Import > External Plug-ins and Fragments.
2. Ensure Projects with source folders is selected in the Import As group.
3. Select org.eclipse.cdt.source > Add > Finish.
4. Browse to the org.eclipse.cdt.source/src/org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.core_2.0.0/schema folder.

Content Assist times out

Namespaces are not shown correctly

C/C++ Browsing's Namespace does not find std globals

Template class member definitions are instantiated too early

template < class T > struct A {
   template < class T2 > void f ( T2 );
};
template <> template <> void A<int>::f<>( int ) 
{ /*...*/ }

4. Defects fixed

Release 2.0 fixes the following defects present in release 1.2.1:

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